The Chris Cardé Experience

... is that you tend not to see them at the bottom of your suitcase when unpacking. Then, for the next three months, you keep wondering how you managed to lose a shirt again. The upshot of this whole things is that, when prepping for your next trip, a pleasant surprise awaits.

In other news, how would you italicize a period? I just wondered what the difference in effect would be if I put the </i> tag in the above paragraph before or after the period. Perhaps it doesn't matter. Perhaps I should have slept more last night.

One of my more recently-developed goals is to become a less intensive consumer of goods... That said, I (along with probably tens of millions of my fellow Americans) hit the pavement this morning to take advantage of so-called Black Friday. The thing about Black Friday is that most retailers put up loss leaders (items sold at below cost) just to get you in the door. If you manage to only buy loss leaders, you successfully stick it to the man. :)

After a mere three months in San Francisco, I already feel like I have a social network. This is nice, but makes the year and a half I spent living in Palo Alto solitude seem all the more frusterating. I had my first run-into-a-friend-at-Noah's-for-breakfast experience... which was sort of nice, since that always used to happen at Noah's in Davis!

In other news, I went to a premiere showing of the anti-Walmart movie at the Roxie Cinema in the Mission last week... No big surprises there (I mean, you go to that movie hating Walmart, and you expect to come out hating Walmart, right?), but I have to admit to being a little disappointed at the movie's organization. I occasionally wonder if I have borderline ADD, and that movie seems like something I would have created had I not bothered to write an outline first. Still, the spirit of the movie (mainly being the mean spirit of Walmart's senior management towards their front-line employees) came through loud and clear.